authorcagray 's review for:

Thorn by Intisar Khanani

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I can't put my finger on what was wrong with this book. Maybe it was just that there was nothing unique about it in the first several chapters. A poor little princess, abused by her family (very much the Cinderella stepmother even though it was her real mother in this case, and the mean stepsisters, even though it was her real and physically abusive brother this time), committed in marriage to a man she doesn't want to marry. Nothing stood out to me about her character, or the setting, or the premise. I just got bored and stopped.